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Answers to Rhetorical Questions :

- Covers a wide-ranging number of subjects.
Before and After :

- The object is to fill in the blanks. Example: "____ day ____" becomes "Sun day light", that is, "Sunday" and "Daylight".
Bovilexics.com :

- Humorous new words and phrases created to define various important and unimportant concepts.
A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia :

- Includes book of word records, palindromic words, pangrams, most beautiful and ugly words, Scrabble words, and Bible word trivia.
The Collective Noun Page :

- Entertaining and annotated listing of collective nouns such as 'a murder of crows' and 'a pomposity of professors'.
Corsinet.com :

- Offers collections of word play, insults, riddles and jokes.
Dave's Fun Words :

- Categorized list of words which are fun to say.
Dislexicon Word Generator :

- Contains Dislexicon, which generates new made-up words and definitions for them.
Divinest-Sense.com: Tom Swifties :

- Definition of this style of play on words, a collection of original and previously-known examples, and links to other collections.
Euler's Day Off :

- Rearrange a five-by-five grid of letters to form words in crossword fashion. There is a daily puzzle with no registration.
Family Travel Games :

- A book of family-oriented wordplay to occupy time during road trips, from easy to challenging. No additional implements needed.
Faulkner or Machine Translation? :

- A quiz to determine whether literary passages are the Faulkner originals or ones machine-translated from German into English.
The Fictionary :

- Contains new, made-up words which are combinations of other words. Accepts contributions.
Fun With Words :

- Heteronyms, contronyms, eponyms, word/letter frequencies and other trivia.
Funny Names Site :

- Contains names like Justin Credible and Mandy Lifeboats.
Funnyname.com :

- A collection of amusing, interesting, strange, and occasionally rude names from the phone book.
Fun-with-words.com :

- Dedicated to oddities of the English language plus various types of wordplay.
Gadzillion Things to Think About :

- 10,000+ rhetorical questions. Accepts submissions.
Humour Articles :

- Collection of various forms of wordplay: puns, deft definitions and anagrams.
Keepers of Lists :

- A large archive of amusing lists. Lists can be created, added to and voted on by the public.
Language Fun :

- Shows how English can be distorted, corrupted or misinterpreted under numerous circumstances.
LazrChet's Rhetorical Questions :

- Questions designed to open one's mind, even if no answer is expected.
Loquacious Lipograms :

- Information and links on lipograms, works of fiction that omit a single letter.
Lost in Translation :

- See what happens when an English phrase is translated by computer back and forth between 5 different languages. Confusion results.
The Mother of All Excuses Place :

- Over 900 excuses to not go to work or school, police and accidents, breaking dates, doctor, missing church, diet, and taxes.
Ms-Sam-Antics :

- Oxymora, famous last words and Confucius Says are just some of the wordplay included.
National Public Radio :

- New York Times and Weekend Edition puzzle editors present a weekly wordplay challenge.
"Oh my God! There's an axe in my head." :

- How to say this phrase in various languages.
Opundo :

- Includes wordplay and oddities, mathematica, theologica, computica, scientifica, and other humour.
Phobias :

- Article lists some of the more amusing phobias, like arachibutyrophobia-- fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
Piece of Pi MadLibs :

- Site featuring a collection of madlibs.
Sanskritpuns99 :

- A personal collection of essays and examples of the form, including parodies of famous works.
Sayings and Rhetoric :

- Mind-wanderings and rhetorical questions.
Scorpio Tales :

- Collection of anagrams, pangrams, eponyms, heteronyms, contronyms, homophones and mangled English.
Stink Pink :

- Questions have answers with two rhyming words.
Stupid Questions :

- Asks for your opinion about and submission of rhetorical questions.
The Tate Family Members :

- Plays on words using "Tate" as a last name.
Text Messages :

- A collection of symbolic "smiley" messages.
Thinking on Words :

- A whimsical view on some words and expressions.
Unscramble.net :

- Unscramble, find, rhyme or define various words online.
Untruisms and One-Trick Words :

- Phrases that are only used when they are untrue, and words that can only be used within a cliche'.
Vocab Vitamins :

- A new word each day, plus the tools to enable you to use it.
Vocal Names Riddles :

- Guess a celebrity's name which is actually made of various words.
Word Games Software :

- Created specifically for Scrabble players, a downloadable English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows.
Word Masher :

- Scrambles your text but leaves the first and last letter of each word intact. The result is readable if you have a good vocabulary.
Word Skit :

- Linguistic contortions, weird and wonderful words, plus quotations.
Word Soup Without Vowels :

- A 12x13 diagram contains various letters in it--without vowels. Find as many words in the diagram and e-mail in your answers. Also Spanish-oriented.
The Word Spy :

- Explains new words and phrases with new entries added regularly, plus archives of previous entries.
Wordage: The Game of Words :

- Has three levels of difficulty to challenge the average player as well as any lurking wordsmiths.
Word-Jumble.com :

- Unscramble mixed-up letters dealing with sports, books, music and miscellaneous. Click on the scrambles to find their answers.
Wordorium :

- A repository of newfangled words with mangled or meandering meanings created by wordpeckers.